VAKKI Communication Research Association arranges a Symposium on February 8–9, 2024 under the theme of Diversity in Communication.
Contemporary communication and media environment is characterised by a diversity of audiences, identities, values and meanings. Diversity is a value that is defended but also contested from different perspectives. At the same time, it is a question of people’s lived experience and everyday communicative practices: multiplicity of styles and languages, bodies and abilities, platform cultures, perspectives, opinions and representations. Communication both expresses and organises diversity and its potential for equality: What can and should be represented and how? Who has access to information and services? Whose voices are heard and how can they be brought into dialogue?